2017 New York Laws
EDN - Education
Title 2 - School District Organization
Article 52 - City School Districts of Cities With One Hundred Twenty-Five Thousand Inhabitants or More
2562 - Presentation of Claims Against a Board of Education of a City Having a Population of Four Hundred Thousand or More to Be Pleaded.

 2562. Presentation  of claims against a board of education of a city
  having a population of four hundred thousand or more to be  pleaded.  1.
  No  action  or  special  proceeding,  for  any  cause whatever, shall be
  prosecuted or maintained against a board of education of a city having a
  population of four hundred thousand or more, unless it shall  appear  by
  and as an allegation in the complaint or necessary moving papers that at
  least  thirty  days  have elapsed since the demand, claim or claims upon
  which such action or special proceeding is founded were presented to the
  said board of education for adjustment, and that  the  officer  or  body
  having the power to adjust or pay said claim has neglected or refused to
  make  an  adjustment  or  payment  thereof  for  thirty  days after such
  presentment.
2. The said board of education may require any person  presenting  for
  settlement  an  account or claim for any cause whatever against it to be
  sworn before it or a committee thereof, or before the claims auditor  or
  deputy  claims  auditor,  or before any person designated by said board,
  touching such account or claim, and when so sworn, to answer  orally  as
  to any facts relative to the justness of such account or claim. A member
  of  the  board,  the  claims  auditor, or any other person designated as
  hereinbefore stated, shall have the power to administer an oath  to  any
  person  who  shall  give  testimony  to  the justness of such account or
  claim, and  for  the  purpose  of  securing  such  testimony  may  issue
  subpoenas  for the attendance of witnesses. Wilful false swearing before
  the said board of education, a committee thereof, the claims auditor  or
  deputy  claims  auditor, or before any person designated as hereinbefore
  stated, is perjury and punishable as such.